Richard Herd
Date of birth: 1932-09-26
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Richard Thomas Herd Jr. (September 26, 1932 – May 26, 2020) was an American actor appearing in numerous supporting, recurring, and guest roles in television series and occasional film roles from the 1970s to the 2010s. He was well known in the science fiction community for his role in the 1983 NBC miniseries V and 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle, as John, the Visitors' Supreme Commander. Other major roles in his career included recurring parts on the NBC series seaQuest DSV as Admiral William Noyce; on Star Trek: Voyager as Admiral Owen Paris, the father of helmsman Tom Paris; and as George Costanza's boss Matt Wilhelm on Seinfeld. In two guest appearances on Quantum Leap, he played children's show host "Captain Galaxy", a would-be time traveler, and a miner named Ziggy Ziganovich. He also voiced Father Elijah in the Dead Money expansion for Fallout: New Vegas. Herd appeared at several fan conventions for his science fiction roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Herd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
The China Syndrome
1979-03-16
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells
Gleaming the Cube
1989-01-13
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987-11-26
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a numb
Deal of the Century
1983-11-04
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a Sou
Trancers
1984-11-07
Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
2005-10-22
Remake of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920). Shot entirely on green screen. Some exact shots from
The Onion Field
1979-09-09
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loophole
Joseph: King of Dreams
2002-12-04
In this animated retelling of the story from the Bible's Book of Genesis, Joseph's gift of dream int
Roddenberry on Patrol
2003-11-22
A very funny short film that parodies Gene Roddenberry's quest to find Star Trek. On the way he enco
Camp Cucamonga
1990-09-23
Standard camp shenanigans and romance amongst the counselors and the campers at a lake front summer
Summer Rental
1985-08-09
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Thing
Dog Days of Summer
2007-09-14
A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.
Terror Out of the Sky
1978-12-26
TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a sch
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990-11-11
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints t
Schizoid
1980-09-01
When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown b
The Survivor
1998-01-01
After mankind moved into space, the old planet Earth is forgotten, a polluted wasteland where only e
Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum'
1992-04-05
Victoria Principal stars in three gripping tales of obsessive love, portraying three different women
Corporate Affairs
1990-10-05
An executive discovers that his former lover has given their firm's CEO a fatal heart attack during
Yesterday's Target
1996-04-22
Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuc
Majority Rule
1992-10-27
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in
The Judas Project
1993-02-19
How would you react if Christ had re-appeared on earth today? Would man kind repeat their mistakes o
Cosmic Slop
1994-11-08
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny
Sgt. Bilko
1996-03-29
The US army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nat
Private Benjamin
1980-10-06
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficu
All the President's Men
1976-04-09
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate s
Ike
1979-05-03
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other warti
Marciano
1979-10-21
A highly romanticized dramatization of the life of Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978-05-26
A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to
My First Love
1988-12-04
Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrisse
Libertad para la juventud
1971-05-05
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
1980-11-23
The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first
A Fare to Remember
1999-03-11
A high powered business executive takes on an assignment on Christmas Eve, knowing she is to get mar
Lovely But Deadly
1981-06-19
A cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerlea
The Secretary
1995-04-12
After being passed over for a promotion, secretary Deidre turns to murder and blackmail.
I Married a Monster
1998-10-08
Kelly's new husband Nick begins behaving oddly, showing a surprising desire to make babies and shun
Get Out
2017-02-24
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads
A Case for Life
1996-02-18
To save her unborn child, she had to fight for the right to die. A True Story
Journey of the Heart
1997-03-02
Janice is the subject of the town gossips for four reasons: she wears too much lipstick, her hair is
Wolf Lake
1980-02-08
War veterans visit a lakeside cabin for a week of shooting, drinking, etc. but find the cabin being
The Anna Nicole Smith Story
2007-08-30
Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, she had a son at 18, became a stripper at 20, and married a billionaire at 2
A Christmas in New York
2017-11-28
Six romantic stories unfold in a New York hotel during the week leading up to Christmas.
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
1981-03-01
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with
The Mule
2018-12-14
Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he i
Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
1980-12-07
Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a r
Hercules in New York
1970-02-23
Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestlin
The Hunted Lady
1977-11-28
An undercover policewoman finds herself framed for murder. Forced to flee for her life, she determin
F.I.S.T.
1978-04-26
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in
Fall From Grace
1990-04-29
Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. Howev
Pueblo
1973-03-29
Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatme
Nashville Beat
1989-10-21
A Los Angeles police officer named Mike Delaney transfers to Nashville joining his former partner. T
The Silent Natural
2019-06-02
William Hoy was one of the first Deaf Major League Baseball players in the 1800's. Being deaf, he in
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997-11-21
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionai
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977-07-14
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Farrell: For the People
1982-10-18
Adventures of the DA's new lady assistant.
That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars
2019-08-08
Documentary about actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywo
Dr. Scorpion
1978-02-24
A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropica
Star Trek: Renegades
2015-08-24
Ten years after the starship Voyager's return from the Delta Quadrant, the Federation is in a crisis
The Gift of Love
1994-12-17